Biography Velu Vishwanadhan

Born
in Kerala in 1940 and trained at the College of Arts and Crafts in
Madras, Viswanadhan Velu was one of the founder members of the
Cholamandal Artists' Village there.
Viswanadhan looks at his work as an individual journey and an
exploration. Though his early work is figurative, the artist evolved his
vocabulary over time through experiments with abstract and geometric
forms. In the late 1960s, Viswanadhan, inspired by the geometrical
ritualistic-magical diagrams of his native Kerala, began to explore the
visual language inherent in them. This theme returns in his work time
and again, with gradual
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